ever bought bottles water? its the same stuff (literally the same borehole a lot of the time) but over 1000 times as expensive

The cost Bottled water in this country is ridiculous, probably because it’s seen as a bit of a luxury item, – in France it’s about 1 euro for 5 litres, but people don’t tend to drink the tap water as much (not that there is anything wrong with it).

£369 sounds like a good deal. Collect water (that falls from the sky), treat it, deliver it to your house with a reasonably consistent pressure, wait for you to use it, take it all away again with all your bodily waste, treat it, handle all the incredibly dangerous products you’ve put it in, turn all that into something that can be handled, return any clean water back into the water course. Not forgetting any water that lands on your property (from the sky) all gets taken away as well. Not forgetting anything you shove down the drain gets taken away as well. Like oil and fat and food.

What grates on me is the cost of getting a meter installed in Scotland (this would make sense for us, two adults in a high council tax band house), I worked out it’d cost ~£250 for the initial survey to see how they could connect (non-refundable), and then a minimum £1800 to install. This gives a ~6 year payback period, all because I want to install something that in theory should reduce water usage!